Algeria: FLN nominates Bouteflika to run in 2014

For possible fourth mandate as president

(ANSAmed) - TUNIS, JANUARY 8 - Algerian majority party
National Liberation Front (FLN) has nominated President
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, to run in the 2014 presidential
elections.
If he wins, this would be Bouteflika's fourth mandate, made
possible by a 2008 constitutional amendment allowing the
president to run for office indefinitely (against the original
two-term limit). The amendment was approved almost unanimously,
with 500 in favor, 21 against and 8 abstaining, and Bouteflika
that year went on to win the election with more than 90% of the
popular vote - against 84.99% in 2004 and 74% in 1999, when he
ran uncontested.

Bouteflika enjoys the support of the FLN and of the armed
forces, which he has intervened to professionalize while in
office. (ANSAmed).